top of page

$4.9-B Saudi Purchase Of Gaming Firm Perplexes Analyst

  • Writer: By The Financial District
    By The Financial District
  • Apr 21, 2023
  • 1 min read

Saudi Arabia is defriending Uncle Sam on oil, while deploying its video-game war chest in his backyard, Oliver Taslic wrote for Reuters Breakingviews.


Photo Insert: Though privately held Scopely doesn’t disclose its financials, Savvy looks to be getting a good price.



Savvy Games, owned by the country’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), announced on Wednesday that it was buying US mobile games specialist Scopely for $4.9 billion. That’s nearly two-fifths of the $13 billion it set aside in September for such acquisitions.



Though privately held Scopely doesn’t disclose its financials, Savvy looks to be getting a good price.


The company projected it would make over $900 million in 2020, co-CEO Javier Ferreira told VentureBeat. Assume that figure grew 30% a year – a conservative estimate given its previous growth – and Savvy would be buying Scopely for around 3 times 2022 sales.


All the news: Business man in suit and tie smiling and reading a newspaper near the financial district.

By contrast, Take-Two Interactive Software’s $13 billion swoop on mobile giant Zynga, announced read more last year, is equivalent to roughly 4.5 times the target’s annualized 2022 revenue.





Optimize asset flow management and real-time inventory visibility with RFID tracking devices and custom cloud solutions.
Sweetmat disinfection mat

TFD (Facebook Profile) (1).png
TFD (Facebook Profile) (3).png

Register for News Alerts

  • LinkedIn
  • Instagram
  • X
  • YouTube

Thank you for Subscribing

The Financial District®  2023

bottom of page